situations that they may come across as a healthcare worker. The Importance in learning CPR & First Aid to a Healthcare Worker CPR and First Aid is very important to learn for a healthcare worker. CPR is the abbreviation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CPR is a procedure used to keep the heart pumping and oxygen flowing until emergency care arrives (Tyler‚ 200). First Aid is where help is given to a sick or injured person until full medical treatment is available. First Aid and CPR
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How to survive an earthquake The ground starts to shake‚ debris are falling everywhere around you‚ pictures‚ vases‚ mirrors‚ the family pet. What do you do in a situation like this? Turn and run or do you get down and hide? Most people would pick the first option‚ but that is one of the most dangerous things you can do in an earthquake. The best way to get through a natural disaster like this is to take cover‚ have an emergency household survival kit‚ and stay in contact. First of all‚ before
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Known CPR The Right Way One thing that ever person on earth should know is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).A person will never know when or were it my come in to use. A lot of people say that they know how to give CPR but‚ most of them will not give it in the create way or will panic and freeze up when the time comes. Hopefully this course will teach you the create process in CPR training. Hopefully you will never need to perform CPR but if you do you will now have the skills to save someone
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Imagine you are eating dinner with your family at a local restaurant and just minding your own business when suddenly a person on another table collapses and stops breathing and requires CPR. Would you know what to do in that situation? Okay so maybe nothing that dramatic will happen to you but learning to perform CPR is still an important and valuable skill to have. Many people have no idea what CPR entails and even I didn’t know any other details than having to push down on the victim’s chest
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and resources available. Literature and history have shown how different responses may have a positive or negative outcome. Events of the past illustrate what type of response is the best for certain situations such as the carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation or the planned escape of Romeo and Juliet in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare or the response to America’s division in 1860 over the possession of African American slaves resulting in the American Civil War of 1861-1865
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2nd ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson‚ 2006. Print. “Cardiac Arrest.” Dictionary.com. Dictionary‚ 2012. Web. 05 Feb. 2012. “Cardiac Arrest in the Emergency Department: A Report From the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.” Resuscitation: Official Journal of the European Resuscitation Council. 28 May 2008: n. pag. Web. 02 Feb 2012. “CPR and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Fact Sheet.” Heart.org American Heart Association‚ June 2011. Web. 02 Feb. 2012. “Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics –
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bandages or plaster to avoid come in contact with the bodily fluids of causality if it is possible to try to wash the wounds of causality put all dirty materials into a plastic bag and dispose of correctly In case of CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) use a protective barrier such as “resusci-aid”‚ or simply try to cover the mouth with something of plastic with a hole for the mouth. First aid kit. To help in the first aid you will have a first aid kit‚ present in all the rooms
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following terms: 1.1 CPR 1.2 airway 1.3 breathing 1.4 circulation 1.5 basic life support 1.6 advanced last support 1.7 cardiac arrest 1.8 respiratory arrest 1.9 biological death 1.10 clinical death 1.11 external cardiac resuscitation 1.12 artificial respiration 2. discuss the general principle of circulation and breathing 3. enumerate the ff: 3.1 indications of CPR 3.2 contraindication of CPR 3.3 importance of CPR 4. state the ABC’s of basic life support
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"How are you feeling today?" asked doctor Jason Posner in his usual automatic‚ inattentive salutation to Vivian‚ which is both humorous and distressing. There is a connection between Vivian Bearing and Jason Posner. Prepped for research and scholarship by Vivian herself (he took her class on the metaphysical poets) Jason possesses many of the same traits as Vivian. He is smart‚ ambitious‚ dedicated to the complexities of his medical research‚ and inept at human relations. Like Professor Bearing‚
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performed correctly it is not as effective. Weisfeldt and Becker created a 3 phase model of resuscitation. 1) the electric phase: time of cardiac arrest -> 4-6 minutes 2) circulatory phase: cardiac arrest -> 4-10 minutes 3) metabolic phase: cardiac arrest -> 10 minutes and more CPR and defibrillation should occur within the electric phase for best outcomes. There are many possible causes of decreased resuscitation rates in young athletes. More young athletes suffer from SCA because of structural heart
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